CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-4474
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-05-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-285
Description
The Frontend Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the fed_admin_setting_form_function() function in versions 1.0 to 2.2.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to overwrite the plugin’s 'register' role setting to make new user registrations default to the administrator role, leading to an elevation of privileges to that of an administrator.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-285 Improper Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-dashboard/tags/2.2.7/includes/admin/request/admin.php#L26 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-dashboard/tags/2.2.7/includes/admin/request/tabs/login.php#L14 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3290623/ plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontend-dashboard/#developers wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fb61159a-e501-4c55-a384-b6049e0f0bc8?source=cve www.wordfence.com